Hacker News with Generative AI: Legal Cases

'Crime Bingo' Results in 9 Montana Felony Cases Being Thrown Out (cowboystatedaily.com)
Nine felony cases connected to a game of “Crime Bingo” played by Bozeman Police Department officers will not be prosecuted, said Gallatin County Attorney Audrey Cromwell.
Law Enforcement, Montana, Crime, Legal Cases
7 points by Bender 10 days ago | 0 comments
US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf] (courtlistener.com)
Legal Cases, Technology, Startups, Google, Antitrust
412 points by dave1629 13 days ago | 947 comments
Amazon v. Consumer Product Safety Commission (D. Maryland 2025) [pdf] (archive.org)
Legal Cases, Amazon
4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 20 days ago | 1 comments
A senior Apple exec could be jailed in Epic case (9to5mac.com)
When the US Supreme Court upheld the court ruling in the Apple vs Epic Games case, I said that the iPhone maker’s response was clearly made in bad faith, and was effectively giving the middle finger to the judge in the case.
Apple, Law, Legal Cases, Epic Games, Supreme Court
89 points by LorenDB 22 days ago | 99 comments
US judge rules Google is an online advertising monopoly (cnn.com)
Legal Cases, Monopolies, Google, Online Advertising
19 points by stevenjgarner 36 days ago | 2 comments
Mozilla's CEO weighs in on U.S. vs. Google (mozilla.org)
The CEO of Mozilla, Laura Chambers, provided insights about the U.S. v. Google LLC case on search competition ahead of the trial slated to begin April 21, 2025.
Antitrust, Google, Mozilla, Legal Cases, Search Engines
5 points by TangerineDream 36 days ago | 0 comments
EFF Urges Court to Avoid Fair Use Shortcuts in Kadrey vs. Meta Platforms (eff.org)
EFF has filed an amicus brief in Kadrey v. Meta, one of the many ongoing copyright lawsuits against AI developers. Most of the AI copyright cases raise an important new issue: whether the copying necessary to train a generative AI model is a non-infringing fair use.
Copyright Law, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Legal Cases
5 points by hn_acker 37 days ago | 0 comments
Kilmar Garcia et al. vs. US Department of Homeland Security et al. (documentcloud.org)
Law, Government, Legal Cases
56 points by belter 47 days ago | 10 comments
Training AI Using 'Pirated' Content Can Be Fair Use, Law Professors Argue (torrentfreak.com)
A group of prominent intellectual property law professors has weighed in on the high-stakes AI copyright battle between several authors and Meta. In an amicus brief, the scholars argue that using copyrighted content as training data can be considered fair use under U.S. copyright law, if the goal is to create a new and 'transformative' tool. This suggests that fair use could potentially apply to Meta's training process, even if the underlying data was obtained without permission.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright Law, Fair Use, Legal Cases
26 points by isaacfrond 50 days ago | 22 comments
Anna's Archive Scraping: Court Defers Key Questions to State Supreme Court (torrentfreak.com)
The legal battle between library database giant OCLC and shadow library search engine Anna's Archive has hit a snag.
Legal Cases, Copyright, Libraries, Digital Libraries
8 points by hn_acker 52 days ago | 0 comments
DOJ to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione in CEO murder case (cnbc.com)
Legal Cases, Crime, Death Penalty
21 points by christhecaribou 52 days ago | 1 comments
Appeals Court Rules That Corner Crossing Is Legal in at Least Six States (outdoorlife.com)
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Western U.S. today ruled that corner-crossing, or accessing public land at a common corner with private land, is legal and protected by federal law.
Law, Outdoor Recreation, Land Use, Legal Cases
8 points by anyonecancode 62 days ago | 0 comments
More than 1600 sex assault cases vs. Uber merged in far-reaching court ruling (latimes.com)
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that more than 1,600 sexual assault cases against Uber will be allowed to continue before a single San Francisco judge, a move with far-reaching implications for the ride-hailing app and its cohort in Silicon Valley.
Legal Cases, Sexual Assault, Ride-Sharing, Technology, Law
12 points by Kon-Peki 71 days ago | 0 comments
Developer guilty of using kill switch to sabotage employer's systems (bleepingcomputer.com)
A software developer has been found guilty of sabotaging his ex-employer's systems by running custom malware and installing a "kill switch" after being demoted at the company.
Cybersecurity, Software Development, Legal Cases
5 points by jc_811 75 days ago | 1 comments
Another Conflict Between Privacy Laws and Age Authentication–Murphy v Confirm ID (ericgoldman.org)
This opinion is a routine ruling over TOS formation and whether disputes must go to arbitration. However, before I dig into that question, I need to note the case’s chilling implications.
Privacy Laws, Legal Cases, Arbitration, Online Services
117 points by hn_acker 84 days ago | 102 comments
US judge grants CIA impunity in Assange visitors case (twitter.com)
US Government, Espionage, Law, Legal Cases, Journalism
15 points by k1m 91 days ago | 3 comments
Defending Software Freedom against Apple at the EU's highest court [video] (fosdem.org)
Apple is one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. Its unbalanced power spans over software and devices, trapping end-users and developers in tight lock-ins. This approach has prevented Free Software to flourish in environments controlled by Apple.
Software Freedom, Apple, EU Law, Legal Cases
9 points by todsacerdoti 103 days ago | 1 comments
Plaintiffs cited 9 total cases The problem with these cases is that none exist [pdf] (courtlistener.com)
Law, Legal Cases, Court Records, Legal Analysis, Legal Proceedings
20 points by healsdata 105 days ago | 1 comments
Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data (arstechnica.com)
Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the "most damning evidence" yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging that Meta illegally trained its AI models on pirated books.
Copyright Law, Artificial Intelligence, Meta, Legal Cases, Data Sets
1270 points by gameshot911 105 days ago | 934 comments
"Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right": Meta emails unsealed (arstechnica.com)
Meta's alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.
Copyright Law, Meta, Legal Cases, Piracy, Technology
22 points by adrian_mrd 106 days ago | 6 comments
AI Expert's Testimony Collapses over Fake AI Citations (forbes.com)
In a twist that perfectly encapsulates the risks of artificial intelligence in the courtroom, on Jan. 10th, a Stanford professor hired as an expert witness in a lawsuit about AI-generated deepfakes had his testimony thrown out after it was revealed that AI itself had hallucinated citations in his court filing.
Artificial Intelligence, Law, Legal Cases
7 points by belter 109 days ago | 1 comments
Meta lawyer Mark Lemley quits AI case citing Zuckerberg 'descent' (bloomberglaw.com)
California attorney Mark Lemley dropped Meta Platforms Inc. as a client in a high-profile copyright case because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” the Stanford University professor said on LinkedIn.
Legal Cases, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, Silicon Valley
47 points by jsheard 129 days ago | 42 comments
EFF Sides with Cox to Protect Piracy-Accused Internet Users from Copyright Troll (torrentfreak.com)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has got involved in a lawsuit between several movie companies and ISP Cox, who disagree over the use of DMCA subpoenas to identify alleged pirates. The EFF argues this could be abused by "copyright trolls" to target innocent users. They urge the court to require a full lawsuit with judicial oversight.
Copyright Law, Digital Rights, Internet Privacy, Legal Cases
8 points by gslin 131 days ago | 0 comments
EU court fines European Commission for breaching its own data privacy laws [pdf] (europa.eu)
EU Law, Data Privacy, Government Regulations, Legal Cases
6 points by impish9208 135 days ago | 1 comments
TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case (vox.com)
The Supreme Court case asking if the government can ban TikTok is easier than it looks.
Legal Cases, Social Media, Supreme Court
95 points by nabla9 137 days ago | 128 comments
Man who claims he invented Bitcoin faces prison after filing $1.1T suit (arstechnica.com)
Craig Wright, the man who claims he invented bitcoin and has been filing lawsuits asserting intellectual property rights, was sentenced to a year in prison yesterday for committing contempt of court.
Bitcoin, Lawsuits, Cryptocurrency, Legal Cases
6 points by pseudolus 153 days ago | 0 comments
Our remedies proposal in DOJ's search distribution case (google)
We will appeal the Court’s decision but the process requires that we first file proposed remedies. This is a case about contracts. Antitrust law is clear that remedies should be directed to those contracts, unlike DOJ’s overbroad proposal.
Antitrust Law, Legal Cases, Google, Contracts
33 points by xnx 154 days ago | 5 comments
End of Hachette vs. Internet Archive (archive.org)
While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review.
Legal Cases, Digital Libraries, Copyright
23 points by jzb 169 days ago | 1 comments
End of Hachette v. Internet Archive (archive.org)
While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review.
Legal Cases, Copyright, Libraries
12 points by hn_acker 170 days ago | 2 comments
Core copyright violation moves ahead in The Intercept's lawsuit against OpenAI (niemanlab.org)
Last week, a New York federal judge ruled a key copyright violation claim by The Intercept against OpenAI would move ahead in court.
Copyright Law, Journalism, AI, Legal Cases
307 points by giuliomagnifico 175 days ago | 364 comments